Re: linux on a usb stick : crc error
- From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:09:29 GMT
Luciano wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, J. Mektub wrote:
On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 09:59:12 +0200, Luciano <nhbfluci@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
is it possible to boot and run linux directly from a usb stick on a machine with no hard disk , no cdrom , no floppy? If yes are already howtos available?
Thanks Luciano
Look at:
http://slax.linux-live.org/
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
Mektub
I "did my homework". this is (more or less) what I did: 0) formatted the usb stick as vfat 1) I got slax-popcorn 2) mount -o loop foo.iso /mnt/linuxusb 3) mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/stick
I don't think this is what you want... I would have tried dd if=foo.iso bs=2k of=/dev/sda Note the total lack of a "1" on the of= clause.
I haven't tried this in ages, something similar worked when I had a bunch of 420MB IDE drives around, and could make that hda and put a "real" drive elsewhere.
Remember that the boot sector has to use BIOS commands, so "but it's not a CD" doesn't necessarily apply.
4) cp -ra /mnt/linuxusb/* /mnt/stick 5) moving isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg 6) some editing of syslinux.cfg 7) umount /mnt/stick 8) syslinux /dev/sda1 9) some magic with bios and "smart boot manager"
-- bill davidsen SBC/Prodigy Yorktown Heights NY data center http://newsgroups.news.prodigy.com .
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